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Do you need to recover a lost password for a Microsoft Office document or maybe you need to open a locked document?

Generally this is quite difficult, if not impossible, especially if the password is nowhere to be found.

Well, this little program we have been testing allows you to easily unlock any Microsoft Office document with ease. It can either attempt to retrieve the password or it can just instantly decrypt and open the file. If it decrypts the file, it won’t retrieve the password, but you can just set a new one. Although if you really need to know what the password is, this will take longer, but it is possible.

So if you need to open locked MS Word documents, protected Excel files, Powerpoint files or Outlook emails, then give this a try. The download is free.

Instantly recover Microsoft Office passwords and documents

A disk image is a single file containing the complete contents and structure representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, CD, or DVD. A disk image file is usually created by creating a sector-by-sector copy of the source media, ignoring its file system, and thereby perfectly replicating the structure and contents of a storage device.

Some disk imaging utilities omit unused file space from the source media, or compress the disk they represent to reduce storage requirements, though these are typically referred to as an archive file, as they are not a literal disk image.

IBM has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FilesX, a privately held storage software company based in Newton, Mass., and Haifa, Israel, that specializes in continuous data protection and nearly instant data and application recovery software for enterprises and remote/branch offices.

FileX is one of the myriad companies out there trying to make operating systems, their applications, and their data more resilient.

The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed because FileX is a privately held and relatively small.

You might not even know that memory stick repair facilities and data recovery facilities exist. Unaware of such a facility you might decide to abandon the valuable pictures that are on your memory stick. This can happen when you repeatedly receive a “Card not found” or Needs Formatting or similar error message when you try to retrieve the pictures from the memory stick.

You check that you have inserted the memory stick correctly, and try again, with the same result. Finally, you give up assuming that the pictures are permanently lost.

They might not actually be lost forever, unless you have made them completely irrecoverable during the repeated attempts. Each attempt sends electrical power into the device, changing the flash memory. And soon, the original image on the memory can become drastically changed, making your pictures unrecoverable.

So the one thing you should do when you begin to receive such error messages is to switch off the camera, phone, ipod,etc and remove the memory stick. Store it in the special static-free plastic case it came in. This single precaution can make memory stick repairs a practical option to recover your thesis pictures music or voice files.

What Causes the Memory Stick Error Messages?

Memory sticks and cards can become corrupted in different ways. They might also suffer physical damage when the sticks circuitry or vital component is damaged. It is when such file corruption or physical damage happens that the flash drive or memory stick becomes unrecognised.

If the problem is physical damage, it is still possible to repair it and recover the pictures but should be done by a data recovery company who have the tools and facilities needed. The repair attempt itself can damage the image further. Be aware that strong magnetic fields (e.g found near speakers) can affect the flash memory .

Mostly memory stick problems arise from software problems or user errors. Examples of user errors include:

• Formatting the memory stick before all pictures have been transferred to the computer
• Accidental deletion of pictures before they are transferred
• Ejecting the card whilst it is still being written to
• Taking pictures or transferring files when your camera, phone, ipod or laptop battery is low in power

Pictures stored on the card / stick can usually be recovered in these kinds of eventualities.

The software controlling the memory stick can become corrupted when you use the same memory stick in more than one camera, or if you do any read/write operations when the stick is in a card reader. Airport scanners can also damage the files and software.

Memory stick repairs can usually remedy such software-related problems, and recover your pictures.

Memory Stick Repairs Procedure

As mentioned earlier, if your storage media begins to display error messages, don’t make repeated attempts to access it. Also don’t try to carry out any repairs yourself.

The kinds of procedures needed to recover the pictures will differ depending on what caused the problem. A professional analysis can reveal the cause and the present status. With this information, an experienced repairer and data recovery expert might be able to recover the pictures for you.

Repairers usually offer the preliminary analysis free. You might be charged only if they are able to recover the pictures.

Click here to download a Repair Tool

Just two days after Intuit Inc. said it had finally come up with a permanent patch for a bug in QuickBooks on the Mac that erased files from users’ hard drives, the company acknowledged it has not completely fixed the flaw.

Users who apply the patch — available for manual download since Monday and scheduled to be automatically downloaded to all machines running QuickBooks 2006 for Mac starting Thursday morning — are still at risk if they run the accounting software while in range of a wireless hot spot, said Ian Vacin, offering leader for Intuit’s Mac finance line, in a posting to the product’s support forum Monday afternoon.

“We have determined that the prior bug re-manifests itself when QuickBooks Pro 2006 for Mac is initiated at public Internet hotspots and a redirection error occurs (for instance, when you are at a cafe that requires you to pay to use its services),” said Ian Vacin, offering leader of Intuit’s Mac financial software in a posting to QuickBooks Web site discussion board.

Vacin explained that an upcoming “R5″ patch, expended to be released today, fixes the problem completely by entirely disabling the product upgrade mechanism that caused the desktop file deletion in the first place.

Accountancy software company Intuit has created a waiting list for users affected by a flawed update to its QuickBooks Pro application.

The update erased QuickBooks data from the hard drives of many users last weekend, Intuit acknowledged. It affected the Mac OS X QuickBooks software, versions 2006 and 2007.

Users reported that applying the automatic updater sometimes deleted their Desktop folders, which could result in the loss of gigabytes of data. The data loss occurred after the updater displayed various fallacious error messages, such as warnings about there being insufficient disk space or a lack of network connection, according to several posts Dec. 15 and 16 on Intuit and Apple support forums.

“A percentage of user files had been shoved into the Trash, while others were marked as deleted when they shouldn’t have been,” said Drew Janssen, owner of DriveRescue, a Baltimore-area data recovery service. “It’s worse than we first thought.

The phone’s been ringing pretty steadily since Monday morning, from all over the country. Something in the updater process in the QuickBooks update was deleting the Desktop and some other files.”

The main reason for this problem seems to be the working process of the OS X which does not place the deleted files in the Trash. This might have caused some users to put the files back in their respective folders. So, these files are invisible to the user and the computer is signaled that these files are available for overwriting.

The company suggests that the users who are affected by this bug should stop all the work. Also, the QuickBooks updater requires users to type in the administrative password for the computer.

Although this is one of the strengths of QuickBooks in protecting the users against viruses, this acted as a drawback as the administrative password allowed the updater to do whatever it wanted to do.

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I’m Richard and the webmaster/developer of PC Data Rescue. Me and my fellow staff hope to give you any information you are after on any data/file rescue and recovery. As we all know it can be a nightmare when you lose important data and cannot get it back.

We shall be writing interesting articles each week, reviewing the best products for data recovery and writing helpful ideas in this blog.

So check back regularly and you will find all the info you need on data recovery.

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